From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 24 15:25:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from inje.iskon.hr (inje.iskon.hr [213.191.128.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF3AF37B405; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tel.fer.hr (zg03-085.dialin.iskon.hr [213.191.135.86]) by mail.iskon.hr (8.11.4/8.11.4/Iskon 8.11.3-1) with ESMTP id f9OMPKH27376; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:25:20 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3BD73FE2.20A464A2@tel.fer.hr> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:25:38 +0200 From: Marko Zec X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Silbersack Cc: net@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, jlemon@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fxp patch - bundling receive interrupts References: <20011024165611.F78388-100000@achilles.silby.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Silbersack wrote: > That being said, I thought I should check on one thing: In your original > post, you mentioned that these techniques came from the linux drive for > these cards. In the process of writing this patch, did you copy any > section of code from the Linux driver? If possible, it would be best to > avoid any GPL entanglements. I used the microcode from Intel's proprietary Linux driver, which is definetely not GPL'ed. I'm not nearly a copyright expert, but it seems to me that Intel put a BSD-like copyrihght on mentioned sources. Intel's copyright is included in rcvbundle.h, so I hope some of BSD "legals" can check on that, and if in any doubt the simplest thing to do would be asking Intel for their position before including the code in a official distributon. Marko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message